"I attended the 65th anniversary of the Nagasaki bombing in Japan recently. This gentleman was standing directly in front of the hypocenter monument wearing a survivor button. The emotion of the place and time was palpable in the air."

"While out on the town on a very rainy Tokyo night, I saw these young Japanese girls in traditional dress walking though the streets. I loved the look of their colorful outfits with matching umbrellas against the wet streets of Tokyo."

"Juhyo—the 'snow monsters' of northern Japan, in Yamagata Prefecture. On the mountain ridges were thousands of trees that looked like white giants. This was truly one of the most magical trips I've ever taken."

"While wandering through Kyoto, I was mesmerized by the millions of cherry blossoms. When the wind would blow, the delicate flowers fell from their branches, covering the earth like a blanket of pink snow."